the reality tunnel

you learn something new every day

I just got done with my Human Communications tutorial, which is, hands down, my favorite class. I don’t find it super challenging, as I have a knowledge of some of the elements of the course (grammars, turing machines, basic linguistics, etc.) from other courses I’ve taken that the other [...]

mp3mv

Last night, when I should have been doing schoolwork,
I wrote a little perl program to rename and retag multiple
MP3 files based on information about a music album from
an ASCII representation of a MARC record. MARC is a
data format developed by the Library of Congress to
store bibliographic data, and one can download MARC records
for various [...]

these are a few of my favorite things
This was originally written 16.02.2002

Turing Machine
So if you’re going to start a math rock band, what would you call it? Well, I can’t think of any better name than Turing Machine. Too bad these [...]

iain and the angry (half) inch
This was originally written 16.02.2002

When I got back from the movie, Iain’s mate Chris was down from the ‘Deen and they were both pretty pissed and listening to metal in Iain’s room. Though they were both drunk, I hung out with both of them for a while, and [...]

monsters, inc.
This was originally written on 16.02.2002

So I basically spent today pissing about. I turned in my computer architecture assignment (at last and I’m glad to be done with processor pipelines for a while) and spent the rest of the day screwing around, reading The Onion, and skating. I had finally settled [...]

party
This was originally written on 09.02.2002

Last night at the Garrison show, Marius handed me a little flyer he had made for a party he was having tonight. He told me that I should come. Well, as party time approached, I was, being my usual, non-gregarious self, a bit worried. [...]

garrison part1
This was originally written on 09.02.2002

Last night was great, and though I felt pretty awful when I woke up this morning, the music of the show still ringing in my ears, things were much better after I showered and scored some cereal.

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garrison part2
This was originally written on 09.02.2002
A big city bus station is a really interesting, and probably more than slightly dodgy place to be early in the morning. There were the expected drunks and random kids walking about the place, but it didn’t take long for me to have my own brush with bus [...]

semester abroad spent drinking with other american students

I saw this article in The Onion, and thought that it was far too true for many kids I’ve encoutnered over here in Scotland.

From the article:
Blevins, who said Seville is “in the Moor part of Spain,” has not visited such landmarks as the Catedral, the largest Gothic edifice [...]

going out
Last night started innocently enough. After skating, Iain, Rob, and I headed for the slick supermarket on the outskirts of town to do our weekly shopping. It was pretty rad, despite the fact that I took forever on account of the whole supermarket-layout-adaptation phenomenon. Once again, I was struck about how [...]